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25 produkter
Ships, Clocks, and Stars
The Quest for Longitude
Av Rebekah Higgitt, Richard Dunn
E-bok, 2023
491 kr
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An illustrated history of an eighteenth-centuury British act of parliament and the heated race to find a ship''s precise longitude at sea.A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve "the …
Sextants at Greenwich
A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes Cross-staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting Circles and Artificial Horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Av Richard Dunn, W. F. J. Morzer Bruyns
E-bok, 2009
1416 kr
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Sextants at Greenwich consists of two main sections: The introductory chapters and the catalogue of navigating instruments of the National Maritime Museum. The first section gives a general overview of the history of celestial navigation with an emphasis on the instruments that were developed and …
Sextants at Greenwich
A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes Cross-staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting Circles and Artificial Horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Av Richard Dunn, W. F. J. Morzer Bruyns
E-bok, 2009
1371 kr
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Sextants at Greenwich consists of two main sections: The introductory chapters and the catalogue of navigating instruments of the National Maritime Museum. The first section gives a general overview of the history of celestial navigation with an emphasis on the instruments that were developed and …
Practical Risk Management
An Executive Guide to Avoiding Surprises and Losses
E-bok, 2004
1410 kr
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A proven way to manage risk in today''s business world Understanding how the risk process works is a critical concept that business professionals must come to learn. For those who must understand the fundamentals of risk management quickly, without getting caught up in jargon, theory, mathematics, …
Navigational Instruments
Av Richard Dunn
Häftad, 2016
109 kr
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With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history.As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of navigation …
South Pacific Air War
The Role of Airpower in the New Guinea and Solomon Island Campaigns, January 1943 to February 1944
Av Richard Dunn
Inbunden, 2024
454 kr
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An illuminating new look at the New Guinea and Solomon Island campaigns of World War II In 1943 the Allies chipped away at the defensive outer barrier of the Japanese Pacific empire, particularly in the Solomon Islands. US Marine and Army infantry trudged through bloody jungle fighting on remote …
Warwick County, Virginia Colonial Court Records in Transcription. Third Edition
Av Richard Dunn
Häftad, 2014
722 kr
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Supplement to Warwick County, Virginia
Colonial Court Records in Transcription, Third Edition
Av Richard Dunn
Häftad, 2016
145 kr
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Warwick County, Virginia, Court Records in Transcription, 1782-1851. Second Edition
Av Richard Dunn
Häftad, 2018
660 kr
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Warwick County, Virginia
The 1643 Church on Baker's Neck and the Genealogy of Neighbor Matthew Jones
Av Richard Dunn
Häftad, 2021
284 kr
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The Board of Longitude
Science, Innovation and Empire
Av Alexi Baker, Richard Dunn m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
552 kr
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In the first book-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians of science bring to life one of Georgian Britain's most important scientific institutions. Having developed in the eighteenth century following legislation offering rewards for methods to determine …
Board of Longitude
Science, Innovation and Empire
Av Sophie Waring, Simon Schaffer m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
537 kr
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The Board of Longitude
Science, Innovation and Empire
Av Alexi Baker, Richard Dunn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1693 kr
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In the first book-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians of science bring to life one of Georgian Britain's most important scientific institutions. Having developed in the eighteenth century following legislation offering rewards for methods to determine …
Board of Longitude
Science, Innovation and Empire
Av Sophie Waring, Simon Schaffer m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
537 kr
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Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850
Av Rebekah Higgitt, Richard Dunn
Inbunden, 2015
1240 kr
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This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use …
Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730-1850
Av Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt
E-bok, 2016
1775 kr
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This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use …
Re-inventing the Ship
Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 1800-1918
Häftad, 2016
874 kr
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Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys …
Re-inventing the Ship
Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 1800-1918
E-bok, 2016
1012 kr
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Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys …
Re-inventing the Ship
Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 1800-1918
E-bok, 2016
1034 kr
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Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys …
Re-inventing the Ship
Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 1800-1918
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys …
How I Shot the YouTube Megahit "e;All by Myself"e; on My iPhone and Why I'm Not Lonely Anymore
Av Richard Dunn
E-bok, 2014
83 kr
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This funny guide to shooting videos on your iPhone will inspire you to use your imagination and see the world in a different way.Dunn provides a firsthand account of what it’s like go from unknown to Internet Celebrity overnight. With 20 million hits and an ever-growing number of fans,Dunn traces …
Navigational Instruments
Av Richard Dunn
E-bok, 2016
114 kr
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With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history. As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of navigation …
Navigational Instruments
Av Richard Dunn
E-bok, 2016
114 kr
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With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history. As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of navigation …
Heaven and Earth United
Instruments in Astrological Contexts
Av Richard Dunn
Inbunden, 2018
2578 kr
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Historically, the idea that the stars and planets influence the Earth and its inhabitants has proved powerful in almost every culture, offering an important context for the use of mathematical and astronomical instruments. In the past, however, historians of astronomy have paid relatively little …
Robert B. Heilman
His Life in Letters
Av Edward Alexander, Richard Dunn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1975 kr
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Robert Bechtold Heilman was a great literary figure of the twentieth century. This collection of his correspondence includes over 600 exchanges with more than 100 correspondents, among them Saul Bellow, Kenneth Burke, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Eberhart, Charles Johnson, Bernard Malamud, and William …
